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Xref: sserve comp.lang.rexx:5228 comp.lang.c:72880 comp.os.386bsd.apps:1234 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!gateway.dircsa.org.au!cleese.apana.org.au!paulh From: paulh@seldon.apanix.apana.org.au (Paul A. Hoadley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx,comp.lang.c,comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Programming advice needed Date: 23 Jun 1994 08:56:36 GMT Organization: cleese.apana.org.au Public Access UNIX +61-8-3736006 Lines: 36 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <2ubiom$l46@cleese.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Every year, I write a "program" for a secondary schools' debating competition by hand. It amounts to a list of who debates who, where and when. It is not a trivial task, and takes hours of "fiddling", for various reasons. Last season, I wrote a series of REXX (AREXX) scripts to automate PART of the process -- ultimately the "who debates who" part of the program is just list manipulation. This saved a substantial amount of time, and avoided a significant number of errors. On selling my Commodore Amiga, I lost the ability to run these scripts, but would *very much* like to find an alternative solution. 1) Does anyone know of any software (commercial or otherwise) which deals with this type of process? 2) What options are there for running REXX scripts under either MS-DOS or (preferably) FreeBSD? 3) Given that (at least for the first part) the actual algorithm isn't terribly complex, what are some simple options for implementing them in a different language, preferably for free, and preferably running under FreeBSD (but also given that my ability to program in C is almost non-existant)? I am very interested to gather opinions on this before embarking on a fairly daunting (for me :-) C programming exercise, which seems to be my only option at the moment. -- -- Paul. <paulh@apanix.apana.org.au>